Drag the Words

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Submitted by H5P Group on Mon, 01/19/2015 - 09:18

A free HTML5 based question type allowing creatives to create text based challenges where users are to drag words into blanks in sentences. Excellent for language training among other things. Use this with the H5P plugin for WordPress, Moodle or Drupal.

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In this example we've included a tip for the first blank, other then that we're using the default settings.

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Description

Drag the Words allows content designers to create textual expressions with missing pieces of text. The end user drags a missing piece of text to its correct place, to form a complete expression.

May be used to check if the user remembers a text she has read, or if she understands something. Helps the user think through a text.

It's super easy to create a drag the words task. The editor just writes the text and encloses the words that are to be draggable with asterix signs like *draggableWord*.

Features

Add as many expressions and missing pieces of text as you like
A hint may be added to each missing piece of text
Drag the Words can be included in Presentation, Interactive video and Question set content types

Learn how to create Drag the Words in this tutorial.

The H5P content on this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International unless another Creative Commons license is specified under rights of use. The author of the content is H5P Group

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Comments

farrisimin

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:52

It would actually be really

It would actually be really cool to have an image of the missing word in the text field something like what quiz sentence drop does..

https://www.drupal.org/project/quiz_sentence_drop

falcon

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:12

I agree! Noted :)

Nmodel

Tue, 08/01/2017 - 09:46

iamges and words

Yes, it would be great to use images, but not excluding the words option

caesaregypt

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 05:03

Drag and Drop

Hi Falcon, do you think we can create this game with your plugin? ( WP): https://pmpritagame.github.io/

Looking forward to hear from you.

Thank you

BV52

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:41

Hi caesaregypt,You definitely

Hi caesaregypt,

You definitely can, I created a simple content to demonstrate this. You can also check the pages below for more information:

Drag and Drop Tutorial - https://h5p.org/tutorial-drag-and-drop-question

Creating Drag and Drop with multiple dropzones and draggables - https://bv-demo.h5p.com/content/1291018197627762039

-BV

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:58

Perfect

Thank you! You are amazing! Most helpful! Now this works in WordPress also right? Thanks again.

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 20:44

Hi caesaregypt,Yes this will

Yes this will also work with Wordpress.

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 08:00

Last thing, where do we buy

Last thing, where do we buy your plugin? We cannot find the shopping part.

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:36

Hi caesaregypt,The plugin is

The plugin is free, you can head over to the the Getting Started page for more information on how to install it.

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 19:29

Amazing!!! thank you

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 19:44

We just saw that there is a

We just saw that there is a porice of 570$/year...but you said it is free? can you explain please? thank you

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:52

Hi caesaregypt,There are 2

There are 2 ways of hosting your contents.

Use the free H5P plugin for Wordpress. You can find the instructions on the page I provided earlier, just click on the Wordpress plugin.
Sign up for H5P.com. This is the paid service and below are some of its features:

24/5 priority support from the H5P Core Team.
High-end infrastructure ensuring very high availability & great performance (automatic scaling & fail-overs on almost every component, upgrades with no downtime, automated uptime monitoring on all components that calls us up automatically if anything goes down, CDN etc.).
A dedicated team of H5P experts operating the systems.
Backups, upgrades, etc. handled by the H5P Core Team.
Detailed drill-down reports providing assessment questions, answers, time completed, and more!
Custom content management.
CSS styling via the admin interface.
There are also brand new premium features which are soon to be released exclusively for H5P.com as well. :)

Thu, 08/19/2021 - 17:33

Hi BV52,One more question we

Hi BV52,

One more question we have. Beside that column based game, does your H5P plugin have the capabilities to sort them also. Example: Have the kids in kindergarten put the numbers in correct order from 1-10. So if they do 13245...it will be incorrect. Let me know please. Thank you

Thu, 08/19/2021 - 18:51

Hi caesaregypt,Do you mean

Do you mean something like this: https://bv-demo.h5p.com/content/1291408350651580129

Thu, 08/19/2021 - 19:31

Yes, similar, Is there a

Yes, similar, Is there a vertical alignement of those columns? or only in this long horizontal way?

Fri, 08/20/2021 - 18:43

Hi caesaregypt,Yes it can be

Yes it can be either horizontal or vertical. You can check this example: https://bv-demo.h5p.com/content/1291409209551916909

hosais

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 20:50

extra redundant choices?

Very cool content type. Thank you very much.

Just little question: I would like to add some extra redundant choices which are not right at all. For example, there are only three blank cells (answers) but with five (more than 3) choices? EX: *I* *like* *h5p* (three blank cells) but with [I], [like], [h5p], [do], [not] five choices.

Is this possible for now?

Tue, 05/05/2015 - 18:37

Thank you for your feedback.

Thank you for your feedback. This is not possible now. Something that you'd need to get developed.

inglesenxuto

Wed, 11/15/2017 - 13:20

extra redundant choices

I agree with hosais: extra redundant choices will be a great update for this activity!

michalaz

Thu, 12/21/2017 - 10:39

I also want extra redundant choices

I also agree.

This is nicely formatted, but would be better with extra redundant choices.

neil_mcm

Tue, 02/06/2018 - 12:08

Yes please!

Having this feature would be fantastic. What would it take to get it going?

bquinn

Wed, 07/08/2015 - 23:17

using asterisks and colons

This has been a great tool for changing up my lessons. I have run into an issue.

I'm creating on a lesson on programming, the language we're using contains colons and asterisks. I was able to replace them with the HTML codes for "drag the words". However, in the initial display of the drop list, any word with an HTML code shows the underlying html code, not the symbol it's meant to represent. If you move the word and it'll redraw it correctly but it's that initial display that's the issue. Do you have any solution to this?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 08:30

I don't think there is a

I don't think there is a workaround for this at the moment, but we'll add a feature request for this and make sure that you can use ** to create a normal * in a future version of drag the words.

romanpathak

Thu, 11/26/2015 - 03:49

Disable the embed and download

I want to attract the visitors to my website by providing them free practice lessons. So, I need to disable the download or embed from the frame so that others are unable to embed the content in their sites. Is it possible to do it?

Thu, 11/26/2015 - 14:04

Yes, there are both settings

Yes, there are both settings per H5P and global settings for doing this. Have you tried to find these settings without succeeding? Which platform are you using, Drupal or Wordpress?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 01:45

does not work

Yes I found and disabled them but when I do this it disables the whole content and only the frame loads.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:31

What happend here? How did

What happend here? How did you fix it? Do we have a bug here?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 01:48

figured out

Ok its working now. Thank you for your help.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:30

:)

Enelya

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 11:26

Mix the words

Hi,

I don't know if i use it well but the answers are in thr right order, so the exercie is very easy. How can i mix the words ?

thank you for your help :)

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 15:20

Hi! The order of the words

Hi! The order of the words are random, when I opened this page they were not in the right order. Try to refresh the page and you'll see that the order keeps changing.

sam harding

Sat, 02/20/2016 - 11:42

adding sections

I am new to this, but am struggling to find the link that allows me to add questions to this - any pointers please?

Tue, 02/23/2016 - 11:57

You mean like adding multiple

You mean like adding multiple drag the words questions in a series? Are you using H5P.org or your own site?

Mar27

Fri, 04/10/2020 - 18:35

I have the same question

I am using the Moodle plugin and I want to create a series of drag the words questions. How can I do that?

Fri, 04/10/2020 - 19:53

Hi Mar27,You can do this by

Hi Mar27,

You can do this by using Quiz (Question Set). Not only will you be able to add multiple Drag the Words you can also add different question types.

paulteach

Sat, 02/20/2016 - 23:41

I need this content type to

I need this content type to make answers in any order correct. for example:

To most verbs, just add -ed for past simple or -ing for the present participle. Examples: *played* and *emailing*
The user should be able to drag 'played or 'emailing to any of the two blanks and it should show correct.

This is possible with fill in the blanks, but I understand this is not possible with drag the words, is that correct?

Tue, 02/23/2016 - 11:59

Yes, I'm afraid that is

Yes, I'm afraid that is correct. It is a missing feature at the moment. I can see how that could be useful in a lot of scenarios. If someone wants to develop or fund this the core team will be happy to add this to Drag the words.

mibarge

Mon, 02/22/2016 - 15:36

Resizable Drop Fields

This is an excellent application for making gapped texts for language teaching. I can see great potential for developing students' awareness of text features, but the limited length of the drop fields restricts the length of strings that can be displayed after the drop. Here's an example of what I wanted to do: https://h5p.org/node/8272

Would it be possible to make the drop targets resize to the length of text when dropped?

Thanks for this fantastic innovation in online content creation - H5P has massive potential!!

All the best, Martin

thomasmars

Tue, 02/23/2016 - 09:29

Hello Martin,

I'm happy you enjoy H5P :)

"Drag the Words" content type was designed to drag single words and one of its features is that it's usable inside compound content types such as Course Presentation, Interactive Video and Question Set. It is a bit problematic to add dynamic size dropzones because they would cause the content height to increase and decrease on each drag and drop, as a standalone content type this is not a problem, but when used inside other content types that introduces design and real estate problems.

However I believe you have a good point and I think others would benefit greatly as well from being able to create "gapped texts". At present I don't think we have any plans to change the Drag the Words content type to add this feature, but it should be easy for any developer to use Drag the Words as a base and expand upon it to create the content type you're visualizing. Feel free to check out the code at github, and please share your code with the H5P community if you decide to do this :)

Have a nice day, Thomas

Anders Skov

Sat, 12/17/2016 - 16:16

DnD lines

As a language teacher I enjoy to let my students reorder frases of a story-line. This is partly possible with Drag the words, but as noted, the gaps are shorter than a long fill-in.

Could it be a solution to make the gap size equal to the largest fill-in? Perhaps as an option. Or should we make a new game? Drag the lines...

Thanx for a thrilling concept.

Mon, 12/19/2016 - 09:43

Hi Anders

That sounds like a great question type. I think the "Drag and Drop" content type might be more suitable for this, but I can appreciate that it is not particularly author-friendly.

I think reordering of phrases from a story-line could sounds like an excellent concept. However making a content type have too many responsibilities may often lead to it being not great at any of them. Thus I think it would be best if it was a new separate content type based off "Drag the words", "Drag the lines" sounds great! :)

I think this will have the highest chance of being implemented if you provide a detailed vision of the content type in the "feature request" forum, where it will get the most exposure to developers.

- Thomas

smarty01

Sun, 10/16/2016 - 08:20

single drag and multiple drops

I am thinking to create true & false exercise using drag n drop. I would like to know If I can just define two drag words (True and False) and allow them to drop into multiple blank texts.

If not, what other content type allow me to create true/false exercises

timothylim23

Mon, 10/17/2016 - 09:30

I'm not sure if Drag and Drop supports multiple drops. I believe it is a one to one binding between question and answer. However, a true/false content type is going to be released fairly soon. You can check out what it's going to look like here:

https://h5p.org/true-false-question

If you are a developer or have access to one you can try and implement it using the source code on github:

https://github.com/h5p/h5p-true-false

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 05:14

large drag and drop

I have 12+ drag word; I am having difficulty using this feature in the mobile devices. Unable to drag words into appropriate place. The scrolling is not working while dragging the word.

tomaj

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 07:40

Created work task

I can confirm this problem. An example can be seen here. I've created a Jira-task on this, so it can be followed up, and fixed.

wclarke29

Sat, 12/03/2016 - 07:02

Drop down select

Do any of your question formats do something similar but where the words can be selected from a drop down list instead?

tim

Sun, 12/04/2016 - 21:07

That's not possible right now but if you would like to share this idea with others in the community you could always make a feature request in the feature requests forum!

nathalie1

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 06:30

Option to have drop down select

Yes, it would be really great to have this option to have questions formats where the words can be selected from a drop down list, as another option to quiz type of questions.

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 07:23

Hi Nathalie,There is someone

Hi Nathalie,

There is someone in the community that is working on something like this. You can read more about it here.

-BV52

nemo42

Tue, 04/11/2017 - 15:43

assign more than one word to a categorie

First thanks for your unafforable work. h5p ist the tool if been waiting for years.

But by the first try to build an exercise for abroad pupils, I've got a problem. I want build an exercise, in which they have to allocate different words, in this case verbs, adjectives and nouns to their categorie per dragging them to their place, but this is not possible, because every word has it's assigned place. I see no solution for that, maybe you' would be so kind and help me in this case

greets nemo42

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